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Well, if you're asking for opinions, I'll offer a few. I certainly appreciate having another option for focused tech aggregation, especially if the comments section is able to attract and retain high quality, well-informed commenters rather than redditors.

Stylistically, I think there's way too much white space on the front page. HN has spoiled me.

And if it's supposed to be a HW site that attracts good commenters, there's way, way too much intro level material on the top list right now. I was getting turned off by the several intro to FPGA links but intro to soldering made me close the page. Not that introductory material can't be there, but there is a very low cool stuff to introductory material ratio.

I like the idea a lot, and wish you luck. Hopefully I find it again in a few years and love it and eat my words.

+1, the information density needs to be majorly increased. My above-the-fold view on mobile only shows 2 stories. HN shows 7.

Appreciate the feedback!

I’ve reduced the font size for small screens so the post density should be higher.

Agree that learning to solder is on the basic side but I thought it would be nice to have some posts for complete beginners.

If you have any feature requests, let me know:

https://hardwary.canny.io/hardwary-feature-requests

I would start off with catering to the people that already are well into advanced territory, beginners can learn from them by just reading and lurking. Starting off with beginner stuff will turn off the people that are way past that. Aiming for the right audience to start with is a major challenge in any kind of community, in my opinion you can't aim high enough for the starting few 100.

I always like the idea of a Hacker News clone for other topics but I've never seen one that sticks. I would assume it's a critical mass and quality user base issue. This site is so amazing because of all the submitters, the upvotes, and the commenters. Hard to replicate that.

I was just thinking to myself that I'm much more interested in the hardware projects than software on HN. Hope this takes off!

Same and thanks for the encouragement! Anything in particular you’re interested in?

The best word for it would be "Gadgetry", I'd say. Things like beepberry[1] or the concept of building your own weather station [2]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976488

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006181

Like to see HN but for specific specialties. Still, you might want to learn from HN's design and keep the front page nice and compact with smaller fonts and minimal whitespace. Even on a mobile device I can view 12 headlines at first glance on HN. On this site, the header is enormous and I can only see 3 headlines on first paint. Drop the "Today's Headlines" altogether and minimize the size of the navbar.

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve reduced the font size so it should be easier on the eye. Improving the UI is on the top of my list.

Hmm, I wonder if the HN folks have ever thought about doing "spin offs", like Stackoverflow did with the StackExchange network.

It's been tried, but non every really took off except for lobste.rs, and even that has only a very small fraction of the traffic that HN carries.

There was a period when every few days there would be a 'HN for 'X'' post.

The whitespace and font size you have now is good. On HN, I have to zoom in to 140% to be able to read comfortably. Just went back to 100% and quickly remembered why I had it zoomed in.

No one is using 480p CRTs anymore, IDK why HN is still formatted that way. Regardless, I like how it is. My scroll wheel is not poisonous, I'm happy to use it.

Looks like there's a number of interesting articles listed already.

One little inspiration from HN would also be nice - adding the age/year of the linked web page to the linked title, so it's easier to see which link refers to recent content.

Psychology, writing, culture topics interest me the most when I browse HN. It would be cool to have a HN-style websites for them. Do you know any?

https://lobste.rs

This is where Lobsters tag/label system comes in handy.

You still get the all tech news frontpage, but if you wanted to filter by hardware - you can do that.

Like so --> https://lobste.rs/t/hardware

This also address the problem of not having enough content for a site to take off, since it's similar to reddit with it's subreddit system.

Decrease padding on mobile, 1cm of white space is too much.

Thanks. I’ve reduced it.

Ah, another machine generated site? We'll see?

Ah, been wanting a HN-esqe hardware site. Nice!

Looks like a great idea. Good luck!

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